Seventy-five per cent of contractors have issues with the recruitment of skilled operatives, according to a survey by the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA).Meanwhile, a separate survey for net-zero skills among supply chain firms found 96 per cent of companies are affected by shortages of skilled labour.CECA chief executive Alasdair Reisner called for a "sensible approach to managed migration" to address the "alarming" gap between the skills currently available and those that would be demanded for future projects. In its workload-trends survey for the third quarter of 2022, the association found that while contractors experienced an eighth quarter of successive growth in workloads, three-quarters of firms reported issues with the supply of skilled operatives, and 63 per cent with the supply of other operatives.
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